Chobe enclave is an area of community land surrounded by protected areas on all sides in Botswana and borders the Zambezi region of Namibia. Unsurprisingly, the area is subject to intense human-lion conflict and has substantial potential to act as a major sink for lions in adjacent protected areas. LRF issued a grant to WildCru … Continued
Chizarira National Park and the adjacent Chirisa Safari Area are two of the most neglected Protected Areas (PA) in Zimbabwe. National Parks Rescue (NPR) is working to support the efforts of the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority to manage Chizarira. The area has a solid founder population of lions and has potential for … Continued
Game Rangers International (GRI) provides support to law enforcement in the Game Management Areas (GMAs) to the east of Kafue National Park. The Kafue ecosystem is vast – 66,400 km2 with enormous potential for lion conservation. However, it is severely impacted by bushmeat poaching resulting in lions being far below their potential carrying capacity in … Continued
SMART law enforcement monitoring is a valuable tool to help protected area managers manage their anti-poaching rangers. SMART allows for easy detection of poaching hotspots and of anti-poaching effort and for rapid reporting. Panthera and North Carolina Zoo have a major regional SMART-training program. They are already assisting 6 LRF grantees with SMART training. This … Continued
Endangered Wildlife Trust were granted to convene the lion conservation and science community to create a set of guidelines for managers for the surveying of lions and their prey. At present there is a great deal of discord within the scientific community regarding survey methods, with the effect that the validity of surveys is often … Continued
The bushmeat trade is the single greatest threat to wildlife in Zambia. LRF provided WCP with a grant to develop a focussed bushmeat programme, designed to tackle the illegal and commercial trade in bushmeat. This threat affects lions both by reducing the prey on which they depend, and also by causing direct mortality of lions … Continued
LRF issued a grant to Wildcru to survey the lion population of Zimbabwe’s Zambezi Valley. This grant has the twin objectives of monitoring the impacts of our investments in the management of the Charara Safari Area and in assessing the status and distribution of lions across the vast complex of protected areas in the Zambezi … Continued
In 2021, LRF issued a grant to MWA designed to support the management of concession land within the vast Zambezi Delta complex of protected areas. This is an area where lions were reintroduced in 2018 and are increasing rapidly in number. LRF support will help increase the area of land under effective management and thus … Continued
The LRF provided Dr Moreangels Mbizah with a grant to purchase a vehicle for her field work. Morengels’s work revolves around tackling human-lion conflict in the communal lands adjacent to Matusadona NP and other protected areas in northern Zimbabwe. Her work involves responding to conflict incidents, reinforcing livestock corrals, working with communities to improve livestock … Continued
The LRF issued a grant of $25,000 to Deo Tarimo through Lion Landscapes. The purpose of this grant is to help kickstart the lion conservation project of a promising Tanzanian national in a key landscape, and to allow for significant capacity building and training via engagement with the Lion Landscapes Tanzania team. Deo will use … Continued